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How Venezuela’s Government Restricts Access to the News

Since Venezuela began cracking down on independent media in 2007, most internet blockages have been conducted by CANTV, the state-run ISP

Last year, the paper’s editor-in-chief, won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work reporting in the face of government repression and censorship.

Just six weeks ago, Armando Linares denounced the murder of his colleague Roberto Toledo, who also worked at the Monitor Michoacán.

On Sunday, the US journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud was shot dead near Kyiv while working on a documentary about refugees.

In the past, informants’ testimonies have been leaked to journalists who then undertake their own investigations…

In Mexico, a crime reporter was killed in the state of Zacatecas Friday, becoming the country’s seventh murdered journalist this year.

One journalist was killed and others injured after police opened fire on a demonstration of factory workers in Port-au-Prince.

Journalists disrupted a session of Congress to denounce the murder of five reporters this year and to call for an end to impunity for killers

Members of the media took to the streets for a second round of massive protests in response to ongoing murders of Mexican journalists.

Heber Lopez, the director of the online news site NoticiasWeb, was shot and killed at his office in the southern state of Oaxaca on Thursday.